The Deal - SHIVIKA SS - Last Chapter updated in Page 17

SPLASH...the loud sound of the water spread across the room, followed by few choice of curse words. The mute spectator, once abused, cricket bat did not even bat an eyelid with all the new proceedings. As if such occurrences were as regular as a daily soap. Or it was probably daydreaming about the good old times when little kids used to play with it, and feeling safe enough for now in its own corner of the room.

The day started normal enough, well as normal as things can be in Oberoi Mansion now-a-days. The matriarch of the family, everyone's favorite Dadi was probably practicing her facial expressions and dialog for all the events and dramas which has occurred in the past as well as new breaking news which may occur in the future. She was not sure how much her old heart can take anymore. Pinky was staying in her room since few days licking her wounds, throwing few OH MY MATAs in between. Shakti was probably thinking he should have spoken more during the previous big fat fake wedding, and promising himself that he will start to write more dialog in his free time. Tej was as usual pining after his Mistress-turned-would-be-daughter-in-law-hope-she-becomes-mistress-again Svetlana. Jhanvi was currently feeling like a heroin in a Ramsay Brothers horror movie. She would have preferred to deal with the funny-trying-to-be-scary Ghosts and Dayans from the B grade Hindi movies, than dealing with the fact that Svetlana is going to sleep with her son now after sleeping with her husband.

The younger generation was no better. Priyanka was wondering if she looked pretty standing silent in the middle of all the crazy stuff happening in her home. She was planning to get tips from Dadi with all the appropriate rituals and the correct procedure on 'How to react when shit happens', complete with the facial gestures like widening the eyes, how much radius should the circle of the mouth have when opened in shock etc. Om was probably writing up a poem to depict the current mess of his life, and also planning on how to create more mess in Tej's life.

Rudra was...well he was working out and drinking protein shake.

The only normal-ish people in the mansion was Shivay and Annika, which is saying something. Right now Shivay was looking like a drowned rat..err..drowned cat. By the heat of the anger in his eyes all the water would have evaporated itself from his body, if not for the laws of Science in between. Annika herself no less angry, wielding an empty jug in one hand as weapon and searching for a second weapon before things get bad, well worse than an already bad situation currently she was in.